schottische

Meanings

1. A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of French origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
2. Music for the schottische.

1. To dance a schottische.

Etymology

From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”), from German Schotte (“a Scot”). First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification". The Oxford Companion to Music (2002 edition) notes that this dance was first introduced to England as the German polka, but it was then superseded by a version known as the Schottische bohème or polka tremblante which appeared in Paris in the 1840s.